Henry Hudson - A Brief Statement of His Aims and His Achievements by Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone) Janvier
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page 79 of 81 (97%)
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He says that the men went ashore (as above) to get victuals; and from their wounds the cabins, beds and clothes were made bloody. There was discontent amongst the company, but no mutiny to his knowledge, until the said Grene and his associates turned the master and the rest into the shallop. He heard of no mutiny "till overnight that Hudson and the rest were [to be] put into the shallop the next day," and this examinate and M'r. Prickett persuaded the crew to the contrary, and Grene answered the master was resolved to overtrowe all, and therefore he and his friends would shift for themselves. Such clothes as were left behind in the ship by Hudson and his associates were sold, and worn by some of the company that wanted clothes. The ship's carpenter never used such speeches, to his knowledge. [This seems to refer to Staffe's question, "Would they be hanged when they came to England?"] Philip Staffe, the carpenter, went into the shallop of his own accord, without any compulsion; whether he be dead or alive, or what has become of him, he knoweth not. No man, either drunk or sober, can report that Hudson and his associates were shot at after they were in the shallop, for there was no such thing done. |
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